Vikas Bajaj

American Steel Just Got More Expensive. Buyers Blame Tariffs.

On a visit to a school bus factory, I was told that American steel producers are taking advantage of the tariffs to raise their prices. FULL STORY FREE LINK:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...

Tesla U.S. Sales Plunge as G.M. and Others Make Gains Overall sales of electric vehicles rose almost 11 percent in the first three months of the year as traditional carmakers offered new models.

Tesla's share of the US electric vehicle market fell to 44% in the first quarter, down from 51% a year earlier and more than 60% two years ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

Trump’s Auto Tariffs Will Raise Car Prices, but Details Are Murky Experts say the 25 percent import fee will make many cars more expensive, but it is not clear when, by how much or which models.

Car prices are going to go up because of President Trump's new auto tariffs but its not clear when prices will rise, by how much and on which models. By Neal Boudette www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/b...

It's the end of an era on the @nytimes.com econ team, with @jeannasmialek.bsky.social headed to Brussels. Couldn't have asked for a better reporting partner for the past nearly six years.

It turned out that people were generalizing from me, Ben Bernanke and Joe Stiglitz. I grew my beard when I was 26, because I kept being mistaken for an undergraduate, and am afraid of what I would look like without it 2/

Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobs The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile.

Robots can load and unload trucks, they can move pallets around a warehouse but they often struggle with other tasks like removing a box from a pile. @eavis.com reports on why its difficult to automate warehouses. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/b...

Why Oil Companies Are Walking Back From Green Energy As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind and solar.

Big Western oil companies and their investors were eager to invest in renewable energy a few years ago when oil and gas prices had collapsed. Now, they have reversed many of those bets, Rebecca Elliott reports. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...